I was going to call this piece “time and motion,” but then I realized that I had already used that title before. In a 2009 posting,the research puzzle | More than a decade ago! I led off with a quote from The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor. I didn’t spend too much time on him or his work; I was in a hurry to bewail the dangers of multitasking and the diversion of attention to smart phones, a trend that was supercharged by the opening of Apple’s App...
